Good morning! 
It is Wednesday, 17 March 2021 my dudes 
(W11/D76/289 rem)
Today is: 
Saint Patrick’s Day 
Faith and begorrah! It’s St. Paddy’s Day! Éire go Brách!
Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick, is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
The day is also known as the Feast of Saint Patrick, Lá Fhéile Pádraig, Patrick’s Day, St. Paddy’s Day, or just plain Paddy’s Day.
Some, most notably North American Irish wannabes, call it Patty’s Day. But that’s because they’re ignorant and dumb.
“Paddy” is, and always has been, the accepted Irish nickname for anyone named Patrick, and an accepted colloquialism for Irish people in general. Calling it Patty’s Day is just wrong. No self respecting Irish person would ever call it that. Don’t you go do it.
So who exactly was this St. Patrick anyway, and why does he deserve an all things green and all things Irish celebration?
His life was pretty eventful. He was born in Great Britain in the 5th century and then kidnapped as a child and enslaved by Irish raiders. He escaped back to his home country after six years.
Later, as an adult, he dreamed that a group of Irishmen were calling him back to their land. Believing he’d received a message from God, he returned to Ireland as a one-man missionary, spreading word of the Christian faith across the pagan island and baptizing people left and right.
Legends surround his stay there. He’s best known for having driven all the snakes out of Ireland (which is probably a metaphor for driving out the druids). He’s also said to have raised 33 people from the dead, some of whom had been buried for years.
He’s even said to have placed a curse on an Irish clan who didn’t take kindly to his promotion of a new deity. Their spirit animal was a wolf, and they howled at Patrick when he came close. Patrick retaliated. The legends say he put a curse on them that turned one couple, every seven years, into wolves—wolves that spoke like humans and craved human flesh. You could say he turned them into werewolves.
On a more peaceful note, St. Patrick is also supposed to have illustrated the Holy Trinity of Christianity by using a shamrock, showing its three leaves growing from a single stem. Partly due to this legend, shamrocks have become the national flower of Ireland, and are symbolic of all things Irish, especially St. Patrick’s Day.
Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide by those of Irish descent and increasingly by people of other ethnicities as well, notably in Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and North America.
Celebrations are generally themed around all things Irish and, by association, the colour green. Both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food and/or green foods, imbibing Irish drink and attending parades, which have a particularly long history in the United States and in Canada.
Have a wonderous Wednesday! Sláinte! 